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I have the blog on my RSS reader and just noticed today that clickable images all seem to have &source=rss appended after every file name so they can be clicked on but sends me to a "page not found" page.
http://paizo.com/image/content/Kingmaker/PZO9032-Building.jpg&source=rs s
is the image from today's blog. Not sure if it's just the nature of the feed or if it was just not noticed, but thought I'd point it out.
Andrew
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll get a fix right up.
This should be fixed now.
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On this subject, I'm a bit of a luddite, and while I tried to read up on RSS feeds on Wikipedia before asking a stupid question, it was greek to me. Harder than greek, enochian, perhaps.
I've clicked to subscribe to several of the PBPs I'm in as RSS feeds, but have no idea where to go to receive that information or get that update or whatever. I can always go to the thread itself, and click on the RSS feed button, but, if I'm already at the thread, I can read the darn thread and not bother to read the RSS feed, then can't I?
What does this RSS feed thing do?
Please use small words!
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1) Sign up for a reader, I use Google Reader since google apps basically runs my life at this point, but there are tons out there dependent on your needs (there's probably one integrated into your browser if you're using reasonably up-to-date Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer; you could poke around in the settings/program defaults to set that up).
2) Click on the RSS feed button on the things you want to subscribe to, hopefully you'll get icons representing various readers to subscribe with which will include the one you're using, click that (if it doesn't come up with all the icons you'll probably need to tweak your browser default program settings).
3) Keep your RSS reader webpage/program open, the reader will poll your subscriptions regularly and whenever there's new content it should appear as a new post in your reader.
RSS feeds are a really powerful tool if you read a lot of websites. Used well you can keep up with dozens of news sites, blogs, webcomics, podcasts, videos and messageboard threads without any obsessive refreshing, wasting time checking sites that haven't updated recently or losing track of what you have and haven't read. Hell, I'm using it to help with house-hunting at the moment, running a search on price-range/size/area on various property finder sites and subscribing to a feed of the results so I know whenever something new is available :).
There's a dead simple 3 minute video explaining them here if that was too garbled :).
I use Firefox with the Brief plugin to treat the dynamic bookmarks pointing to Atom/RSS feeds, and was quite happy about that. I have several feeds pointing to interesting threads and keeping me up-to-date with what happens therein.
However, some days ago, I began receiving feeds that were not in relation with the subscribed threads, more like the related forum. Investigating further, this happens once a thread is pushed into the "archive" subdirectory.
Is there a way to stop that from happening? Is there a site update coming up in which you could be persuaded to correct this - so that those threads pushed into archive will still be available using their URL? Something like creating a numbered unique ID for any thread will do finely. I don't really want to program another plugin just for Paizo but I might have to if nothing comes up... or I'll simply remove all those interesting feeds :-(
Thanks for your time and your otherwise nice site and products.
I use Firefox with the Brief plugin to treat the dynamic bookmarks pointing to Atom/RSS feeds, and was quite happy about that. I have several feeds pointing to interesting threads and keeping me up-to-date with what happens therein.
However, some days ago, I began receiving feeds that were not in relation with the subscribed threads, more like the related forum. Investigating further, this happens once a thread is pushed into the "archive" subdirectory.
Is there a way to stop that from happening? Is there a site update coming up in which you could be persuaded to correct this - so that those threads pushed into archive will still be available using their URL? Something like creating a numbered unique ID for any thread will do finely. I don't really want to program another plugin just for Paizo but I might have to if nothing comes up... or I'll simply remove all those interesting feeds :-(
Bump... No idea?
Fixing this is on the todo list but it's not a super high priority right now, sorry.
Thanks, that's just what I wanted to know.